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Re-constructing semantic maps: the comitative-instrumental area

Semantic maps are a tool to represent cross-linguistic regularities in the mapping of meaning on form...

Keywords: semantic map, instrumental, comitativ, case functions, semantic typology

04/2007 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag
Spatial coordinate systems in demonstrative meaning

Exploring the semantic encoding of a group of crosslinguistically uncommon “spatial-coordinate demonstratives”, this work establishes the existence of demonstratives whose function is to project angular search domains, thus invoking proper coordinate systems (or “frames of reference”)...

Keywords: deixis, demonstratives, figure-ground, frame of reference, Jahai, semantic typology, space

01/2008 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter